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WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR MANUFACTURING 

Most of the Best Selling Articles ever 
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Jv 1. FROZEN PERFUME.-Follow the same directioDS 
as in ''Starch Enamel," (p. 4) and perfume as follows: Take 
2 oz. oil lemon grass and J oz. oil of cloves, and J oz. oil 
lavendar flowers; mix them well together. For this amount 
of perfume you require about 4 quarts of the liquid paraf- 
fine. Pour the oils into the melted parafl^ne while warm, 
stirring it well while pouring. Stamp into square cakes 
and put into neatly printed envelopes. Sell for 10 cents a 
cake, cost two cents. Agents can sell 100 cakes a day. 

2. LIGHTNING INK ERASER. -Take of chloride of 
lime 1 lb., thoroughly pulverized, and 4 quarts soft water. 
The above must be thoroughly shaken when first put to- 
gether. It is required to stand twenty-four hours to dissolve 



4 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

the chloride of lime. Then strain through a cotton cloth, 
after which add a teaspoonful of acetic acid (No. 8, com- 
mercial) to every ounce of chloride of lime water. The 
-eraser is used by reversing the penholder in the hand, dip- 
ping the end in the fluid, and applying it, without rubbing, 
to the blot to be erased. When the ink has disappeared, 
absorb the fluid into a blotter, and the paper is immediately 
ready to write upon. Put up in common ink bottles and 
retail for 25 cents each. 

3. SELF-SHININC STOVE POLISH.- Take plumb 
ago (black lead) finely pulverized, and put in 2-oz. wood 
boxes nicely labeled, and sell for 10 or 15 cents a box. 
Wholesale to stores and agents at $6.00 a hundred. Costs 
less than 3 cents a box to manufacture. 

Directions for Use.— Use a damp woolen rag, dip in 
the box, and apply to the stove. Then polish with a dry 
cloth, and a most beautiful polish will appear. 

4. ELECTRIC POWDER.- To 4 lbs. best quality 
whiting add J lb. cream tartar and 3 oz. calcined magnesia; 
mix thoroughly together, box and label. 

Directions.— Use the polish dry with a piece of chamois 
skin or canton flannel previously moistened with water or 
alcohol, and finish with the polish dry. A few moments' 
rubbing will develop a surprising lustre, different from the 
polish produced by any other substance. 

5. IMPROVED STARCH ENAMEL. -Melt 5 lbs. of 
refined paraffine wax in a tin boiler or pan over a slow fire; 
use car^ in melting. ' When melted, remove the vessel from 
the fire and add 200 drops of oil of citronelli. Take some 
round tin pie pans and oil them with sweet oil as you would 
for pie baking, but do not use lard. Put these pans on a 



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level table, and pour in enough for the hot wax to make ee 
depth in each pan equal to about the thickness of one-eighth 
of an inch. While hot, glance over the pans to see that 
they are level. As this is very essential, please remember, 
it. If the pans are not level, the cakes will be all tbicS:- 
nesses, which should not be so. Let them cool, but not too 
fast. Watch them closely, and have a tin stamp ready to 
stamp the cakes out about the size of an ordinary candy 
lozenge. This stamp should be about eight inches long, 
larger at the top than at the bottom, so that the cakes can 
pass up through the stamp as you are cutting them out of 
the pans. Lay the cakes in another pan to cool. Before 
they become very hard, separate them from each other ; if 
not, it will be difficult to do so when they become very 
hard. Do not neglect this. Have boxes made at any box- 
maker's in any large city. They cost about from one to two 
cents each ; sliding boxes are the best. Have your labels 
printed, and commence business at once. Put 24 to 30 
cakes in each box, and retail for 25 cents. Wholesale for 
$1.50 per dozen. 

Directions. — To a pint of boiling starch stir in one 
cake or tablet. This gives an excellent lustre to linen or 
muslin, and imparts a splendid perfume to the clothes, and 
makes the iron pass very smoothly over the surface. It re- 
quires but half the ordinary labor to do an ironing. It is 
admired by every lady. It prevents the iron from adhering 
to the surface, and the clothes remain clean and neat much 
longer than by any other method. 

6. MAGIC CREASE AND DIRT ANNIHILATOR.- 

To make one gross 8-ounce bottles — aqua-ammonia 1 gallon, 
soft water 8 gallons, best white soap 4 lbs., saltpetre 8 oz. 
Shave the soap fine, add the water, boil until the soap is 
dissolved, let it get cold, then add the saltpetre, stirring^ 
until dissolved. Now strain, let the suds settle, skim off 
the dry suds, add the ammonia, bottle and cork at once. 



6 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

Costs about $7.25 per gross ; sells for $72.00. It will do 
everything claimed for it, and more too. It is no mixture 
of soap suds as some may suppose, but a pure, scientific, 
chemical preparation. If you wish to make a small quan- 
tity for trial, take aqua-ammonia 2 oz , soft water 1 quart, 
saltpetre 1 teaspoonful, white soap in proportion. Shave 
the soap fine, mix all, shake well, and let settle a day or 
two to dissolve the soap. 

It will remove all kinds of grease and oil spots from 
every variety of wearing apparel; will remove all grease 
from door knobs, window sills, etc. It will remove paint 
from a board ; it turns any grease or oil into soap, which is 
easily washed out with clear cold water. It is certain death 
ito bed bugs. 

Directions. -For grease spots, pour upon the article to 
be cleaned a sufficient quantity of the Magic Annihilator, 
rubbing well with a clean sponge, and applying to both 
sides of the article you are cleaning. Upon carpets and 
coarse goods, where the grease is hard and dry, use a stiff 
brush and wash out with clear cold water. For shampooing 
take a small quantity of the Magic Annihilator with an 
equal quantity of water. 

7. CERTAIN CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. - Sul 

phate of iron 5 grains, magnesia 10 grains, peppermint 
water 11 drams, sjurits of nutmeg 1 dram, twice a day. 
This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so par- 
tially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and 
prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration that 
follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating 
drinks. 

- 8. TO FORCE MUSTACHE AND WHISKERS TO 

CROW.— Croton oil 12 drops, sweet oil of almonds ^ oz. 
troy. Mix and rub on skin gently twice a day. If too irrit 
ating, double the amount of sweet almond oil. It is pois 
onous. 



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9. RAZOR PASTE.— Levigated oxide of tin (prepared 
putty powder) 1 ounce, powdered oxalic acid i oz., pow- 
dered gum 20 grains. Make it into a stiff paste with water, 
and evenly and thinly spread it over the strop. With very 
friction, this paste gives a fine edge to the razor, and its 
little efficiency is still further increased by moistening it 

10. AFTER-SHAVINC CREAM.- Curd soap 8 oz.,^ 
almond oil 2 oz., glycerine 1 oz., spermaceti J oz., carbon- 
ate of potassium i oz., water 16 oz. 

Directions. --Cut the curd soap into shreds, and dis- 
solve it by the aid of a water bath in 14 oz. of water. Dis- 
solve the spermaceti in the almond oil, and while warm mix 
it with glycerine, potash, and remainder of the water ; 
transfer to a warm mortar, gradually and steadily incorpor- 
ate the warm soap solution, and continue to stir until a 
smooth paste is formed. With this incorporate a suitable 
perfume. 

11. CURLING CREAM.-Mucilageof gumarabicSoz., 
Salts of tartar IJ oz., rose water 2 J pt., orange flower oil 
(from flowers) 6 oz. Color with liquid carmine. 

12. TO DESTROY FLIES.— Boil some quassia-chips 
in a little water, sweeten with syrup or molasses and place 
it in saucers. It is destructive to flies, but not to children. 

13. CIDER WITHOUT APPLES. -Mix well together 
10 gallons cold water, 7J lbs. brown sugar, J lb. tartaric 
acid, add the juice pressed from 2 or 3 lbs. dried sour 
apples, boiled. 

14. WILD CHERRY PHOSPHATE. - Wild cherry 
extract (B. & C.'s) 4 oz., simple syrup 1 gal., fruit acid 1 oz. 
caramel enough to color slightly. Mix, and serve as a sti 



8 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

drink in an eight-ounce mineral glass, adding the phosphate 
last, and stirring with a spoon. 

15. ROOT BEER.— Syrup 1 gallon, root beer essence 
2 ounces, soluble essence of ginger, or oil of extract of 
ginger, 1 ounce; tincture of capsicum J dram, fruit acid 
solution 1 ounce. Color dark with caramel. 

16. SODA SYRUP.— The common or moie watery 
syrups are made by using loaf or crushed sugar, 8 pounds; 
pure water, 1 gallon; gum arabic, 2 ounces. Mix in a brass 
or copper kettle; boil until the gum is dissolved, then skim 
and strain through white flannel, after which add tartaric 
acid, 5^ oz., dissolved in hot water. To flavor, use extract 
of lemon, orange, rose, pine- apple, peach, sarsaparilla, 
strawberry, etc., J ounce to each bottle, or to your taste. 

17. TO MAKE HAIR SOFT AND CLOSSY.-Put one 
ounce of castor oil in one pint of bay rum or alcohol, and 
color it with a little of the tincture of alkanet root. Apply 
a little every morning. 

18. SURE CURE FOR BALDNESS.-Takewater, one 
pint; pearl-ash, one-half ounce; onion juice, one gill. Mix, 
and cork in a bottle. Rub the head night and morning, 
with a rough towel, dipped in the mixture. 

19. TO PREVENT HAIR TURNING CRAY.-When 
the hair begins to change color, the use of the following 
pomade has a beneficial effect in preventing the disease 
extending, and has the character of even restoring the color 
of the hair in many instances: — Lard, 4 ounces; spermaceti, 
4 drachms; oxide of bismuth, 4 drachms. Melt the lard 
and spermaceti together, and when getting cold stir in the 
bismuth; to this can be added any kind of perfume, accord- 
ing to choice. It should be used whenever the hair re- 






MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 9 

quires dressing. It must not be imagined that any good 
effect speedily results; it is, in general, a long time takino^ 
place, the change being very gradual. 

20. TO REMOVE FRECKLES, PIMPLES, TANS, 

ETC.— Tincture of benzoine, one pint; tincture tolou, one- 
half pint; oil rosemary, one-half ounce. Put one tea- 
spoonful of the above mixture in one-quarter pint of water, 
and with a towel wash the face night and morning. 

21. TO MAKE COMPLEXION FAIR.-Take emulsion 
of bitter almonds, 1 pint; oxymuriate of quicksilver, 2 J 
grains; sal ammonia, 1 drachm. Use moderately for pim- 
ples, freckles, tanned complexions. 

22. FISH BAIT COMPOUND.- Put the oil of rhod- 
ium on the bait, when fishing with the hook, and you will 
always succeed. Or, take the juice of smallage or lovage, 
and mix with any kind of bait. As long as there remains 
any kind of fish within many yards of your hook, you will 
find yourself busy pulling them out. 

23. HOW TO INTOXICATE FISH.- Take Cocculus 
Indicus, pulverize and mix with dough, then scatter it 
broadcast over the water, as you would sow seed. The fish 
will seize it with great avidity, and will instantly be- 
come so intoxicated that they will turn belly up on top of 
the water, by dozens, hundreds, or thousands, as the case 
may be. All that you now have to do, is to have a boat' 
or other convenience, to gather them up, and as you gather 
put them in a tub of clean water, and presently they will 
be as lively and healthy as ever. 

24. HUNTERS' and TRAPPERS' SECRETS.- Take 
equal parts of oil of rhodium, anise oil, sweet oil and honey, 
and mixweL" Put a few drops on any kind of bait. 



10 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

25. OINTMENT FOR TRAPS that will Attract all 

Animals.— Take one-half pound strained honey, one-quar 
ter drachm musk, three drachms oil of lavender, and four 
pounds of tallow. Mix the whole thoroughly together, and 
make it into forty pills, or balls, and place one of these 
pills under the pan of each trap when setting it. 

26. HOW TO KEEP FLIES AND BOTTS OFF 
HORSES.— Boil three handfuls of walnut leaves, or smart 
weed, in three quarts of water; sponge the horse (before 
going out of the stable) between and upon the ears, neck, 
flank and legs. 

27. TO KEEP HAMS IN SUMMER. -Take If lb. 

salt — coarse or alum salt is best; J oz. saltpetre; 1 pt. mo- 
lasses or 1 lb. brown sugar; one teaspoonful saleratus. Let 
these be added to 1 gal. water, and the amount increased in 
the same proportions to make the quantity required. Bring 
the liquor to a boil, taking care to skim just before it be- 
gins to boil. Let the pickle cool, and pour it over the meat 
until entirely covered. The meat should be packed in 
clean, tight casks, and should remain in the pickle six or 
seven weeks, when it will be fit to smoke. 

28. How to Cause Fruit and Vegetables to Crow 
to an Enormous Size.— Watering with a solution of 
sulphate of iron, the most wonderful fecundity has been 
attained. Pear-trees and beans, which have been submitted 
to this treatment, have nearly doubled in the size of their 
productions, and a noticeable improvement has been re- 
marked in their flavor. 

29. HOW TO KEEP MILK FROM SOURINC.- 

Add a little sub-carbonate of soda, or of potash. This, by 
combining with and neutralizing the acetic :<cid formed, 
has the desired effect, and keeps the milk from turning 



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sg^oner than it otherwise would. The addition is perfectly 
harmless, and does not injure the taste. 

30. HOW TO KEEP EGGS FRESH.-Jayne's liquid 
{expired patent) is thus made: Take a bushel of lime, 2 lb* 
of salt, i lb. of cream of tartar, and water sufficient to 
form a solution strong enough to float an egg. In this 
liquid, it is stated, eggs may be preserved for two years. 

31. How to Make Cucumber Vines Bear Five 
Crops in One Season.— When a cucumber is taken from 
the vine, let it be cut with a knife, leaving about the eighth 
of an inch of the cucumber on the stem, then slit the stem 
with a knife from the end to the vine, leaving a small por- 
tion of the cucumber on each division, and on each separate 
slit there will be a new cucumber as large as the first. 

32. Easy Way to Keep Apples from Freezing.— 

They may be kept in the attic with impunity throughout 
the winter, by simply covering them over with a linen 
cloth; be sure you have Imen, for woollen or other cloth is 
of no avail 

33. TO INCREASE THE LAYING OF HENS. - 

-^ The best method is to mix with their food, every other day, 
about a teaspoon of ground cayenne pepper to each dozen 
fowl. 

34. TO MAKE BUTTER KEEP.-Powder finely and 
mix together 2 parts of the best salt, 1 of loaf sugar, and 1 
of nitre. To each pound of butter, well cleansed, from the 
milk, add 1 oz. of this compound. It should not be used 
under a month. 

35. TO PREVENT THE SMOKING OF LAMPS. - 

Soak the wick in strong vinegar, and dry it well before you 
use it. 



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36. HOW TO MAKE LAMP WICKS INDESTRUC- 
TIBLE.— Steep common wicks in a concentrated aqueous 
solution of tungstate of soda, and then dry thoroughly in 
ao oven. 

37. TO PREVENT CHIMNEYS from CRACKINC- 
Put the chimneys into cold water and gradually heat it 
until it boils, then let it as gradually cool. 

38. How to Keep Fruit and Vegetables in any 
Vessel Cheaply.— For Fruits and Berries of all kinds^ 
including apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears and 
plums, and blackberries, currants, gooseberries, strawberries, 
etc. Take the fruit as soon after being picked as possible;. 
see that it is sound and clean; pack closely in a jar, keg or 
bottle; shake it down well so as to completely till the 
vessel, and cover with the following solution: 36 grains 
salasylic acid; alcohol, J oz.; white sugar, 6 oz. ; soft water, 
1 quart. 

For Vegetables, such as asparagus, beans, cauliflower, 
corn, cucumbers, peas, tomatoes and, in fact, any perish- 
ables. Place in any kind of vessel and cover with the 
following: 1 oz. acid, 1 gill alcohol, J oz. saltpetre, 1 pound 
salt, 4 gallons soft water. 

39. HOW TO TAME WILD HORSES. -Take oil of 

cummin, oil of rhodium and horse castor. Keep separa-te 
in air-tight bottles. Rub a little of the oil of cummin on 
your hand and approach the horse on the windward side, 
so that he can smell the cummin. The horse will then let 
you come up to him without trouble. Rub your hand gently 
on the horse's nose, getting a little on it. He will then fol- 
low you. Give him a little of the castor on a piece of loaf 
sugar or apple; get a few drops of the rhodium on his 
tongue, and he is your servant. He will follow you like a 
pet dog. 



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40. TO CURE DEAFNESS.— An eminent physiciai: 
says: ''Take sassafras oil, 5 drops; sweet oil, J oz. Mix, 
and drop into the ear once or twice a day/' 

v/41. TO REMOVE SUPCRFLUOUS HAIR. -Fresh 
burnt lime, 16 oz.; pearl-ash, 2 oz.; sulphuret of potash, 
2 oz. Reduce them to fine powder in a mortar, and then 
put it into closely corked phials For use, the part must be 
first soaked in warm water, then a little of the powder 
made into a paste must be immediately applied. Should it 
irritate the skin, wash it off with hot water or vinegar. 

42. BUST DEVELOPER AND EXPANDER. - 

Equals parts of olive oil and milk; apply two or three times 
daily. Rub in well with upward motion. 

43. SOLID MUCILAGE PENCILS. -Dissolve gum 

arable in hot water to form a syrupy liquid, add a little 
clove oil and thicken with powdered gum dextrine; mould 
and dry slowly. 

44. INK AT 5 c. A QUART. -Take half an ounce of 
extract of logwood and ten grains of bi-chromate of potash, 
and dissolve them in a quart of hot rain water. When cold, 
pour it into a glass bottle, and leave it uncorked for a week 
or two. Exposure to the air is indispensable. The ink is 
then made, and has cost five to ten minutes' labor, and 
about three cents, besides the bottle. The ink is at first an 
intense steel blue, but becomes quite black.. 

45. LIQUID CLUE.— To one ounce of borax in one 
pint of boiling water, add two ounces of shellac, and boil 
until the shellac is dissolved. 

46. LAUNDRY BLUEING AT 7C. A GALLON. - 

Dissolve indigo sulphate in cold water, and filter. 



14 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

47. CARPET SOAP. -Take a pail of cold water and 
add to it a gill of ox-gall. Rub it into the carpet with a 
soft brush. It will raise a lather, which must be washed 
off with clear cold water. Rub dry with a clean cloth. 
Weak solutions of alum or soda are used for reviving the 
colors. 

48. WALL PAPER COMPOUND. -Take one cup of 

Powdered Prepared Whiting, and three cups of ordinary 
wheat flour. Break all lumps and mix together thoroughly, 
and sift. Now add water until you bring it to a stiff dough. 
Be very careful about this— don't get your dough wet or sticky ^~ 
or it won't work When you have it good and stiff, it is 
ready for use. Take a dry, soft rag and wipe off the 
loose dirt, and with a small lump of your dough make a 
long stroke on the wall and you will remove the dirt. At 
every stroke, you must knead the dough in your hand sa 
that the dirt will be driven into it — one or two squeezes will 
do it. Should you find paper with grease marks, or marks 
like where people rest their heads, take pipe clay and mix 
it with water until it looks like thick cream, and lay it on 
the spot, and next day, when it is dry, remove it with a 
knife or brush. 

The above is very simple and easy, and never fails in 
the hands of one who will follow the instructions carefully. 

49. WHITE ENAMEL PAINT. - Take of tin, pre 
pared by aquafortis, and red lead, each 1 oz. white pebble- 
stone, or natural crystal, 2 oz.; nitre, 1 oz. ; arsenic, 1 drachm, 
with equal parts of flux, or more or less, as the softness or 
opacity may require; melt together, calcine, or use raw. 

50. FLESH BUILDER.- Celery Malt. —Take of 
malt three parts, extract of celery one part; mix. Take a 
spoonful after meals. 



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51. TOOTH POWDER.- Prepared chalk mixed 
with half its weight to an equal weight of cuttle fish bone 
and aromatized, or not, with 8 or 10 drops of oil of cloves, 
or with 5 or 6 drops each of the oils of cloves and cassia, 
or with 1 drm. of orris root per oz. A simple and really 
excellent tooth powder for frequent use. , 

52. CHEWING GUM.- Paraffin with a little olive 
oil and glycerine may be melted together for a chewing 
gum. The exact mixture will vary with the season, etc. 

53. TO PREVENT WINDOWS FROM FROST- 
ING IN WINTER.— A thin coat of pure glycerine applied 
to both sides of the glass will prevent any moisture form- 
ing thereon, and will stay until it collects so much dust 
that it cannot be seen through. Surveyors can use it to 
advantage on their instruments in foggy weather. In fact, 
it can be used anywhere to prevent moisture from forming 
on anything, and locomotive engineers will find it particu- 
larly useful in preventing the accumulation of steam as well 
as frost on their windows during the cold weather. 

54. CURE FOR PI LES. -Powdered nutgall, 2 dram.; 
camphor, 1 dram.; melted wax, 1 oz ; tincture of opium, 
2 dram. Mix. 

55. CHEAP FIRE KINDLER. -60 parts melted resin 
and 40 parts tar, in which the wood is dipped for a moment. 

56. How to Make a Superior Fuel Cheaply.— 

Mix coal, charcoal, or saw dust, 1 part; sand of any kind, 
2 parts; marl or clay, 1 part; in quantity as thought proper. 
Make the mass up wet into ballS of a convenient size, and 
when the fire is sufficiently strong, place these balls, accord- 
ing to their size, a little above the bar, and they will pro- 
duce a heat considerably more intense than common fuel. 



16 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

and insure a saving of one-half the quantity of coals. A 
fire thus made up will require no stirring nor fresh fuel for 
ten hours. 

57. WATER-PROOF COMPOUND FOR SHOES. - 

A liquid known in the trade as Delphineum, is for preserv- 
ing boots and shoes, and rendering them water proof. One 
small bottle is said to be sufficient for 180 pairs of boots. 
In using it a few drops are put on with a sponge, which 
produces a beautiful deep black luster which will stand 
water. The liquid is a solution of 10 grm. of dark shellac 
in 50 grm. of alcohol, to which J grm. of lampblack and 60 
drops of fish oil have been added. 

58. SHOE AND FURNITURE POLISH. - Another 
kind of shoe blacking is made by melting 20 parts of bees- 
wax, or cerasine, 30 parts of spermaceti, and 350 parts of 
spirits of turpentine, with 20 parts of asphalt varnish, and 
add 10 parts of borax, 10 parts of lampblack, 10 parts of 
Prussian blue, and 5 parts of nitro-benzol. 

59. TO CLEAN KID CLOVE€.— Apply common gazo- 
line with a clean cloth. Operate oui of door or in an open 
room, free from fire, or striking matches, to prevent explo- 
sion. 

60. TO ARREST FERMENTATION. -Mix together 
14 lb. of mustard seed with 1 lb. cloves, and bruise them 
well without drying. The second may be used for wine 
and beer as well as cider. 

61. CURES CONSTIPATION.-Corn meal, one table- 
spoon stirred up in sufficient cold water to drink well, and 
drank in the morning, immediately after rising, has, with 
perseverance, cured many bad cases. Or, a fresh egg beat- 
en in a gill of water and drank on rising in the morning, 



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and at each meal, for a week or ten days, lias cured obstin- 
ate cases. It might be increased to two or three at a time, 
as the stomach will bear. 

62. HOW TO CORN BEEF.— There are many recipes. 
We give one. To each gallon of water add IJ lb. salt, J lb. 
sugar, J oz. saltpetre, and J oz. potash. Boil, skim, and 
when cold pour over the meat. 

63. HOW TO ARREST BLEEDING.- Alum (pow- 
dered), 1 part; gum tragacanth, 1 part; tannin (tannic acid), 
1 part. Used to stop local bleeding, a little being sprinkled 
or pressed on the part. 

64. CURE OF OFFENSIVE BREATH -The odor 
may be corrected by washing out the mouth with Condy's 
fluid, and by taking the following draught twice a day: — 
Chlorate of potash, 15 grains; water, 1 ounce. 

65. HOW TO CAN CORN. -The corn, after removing 
from the cob, is filled into the clean cans so as to leave no 
air spaces. These are placed in a large oven, or other air" 
tight vessel, and subjected to hot steam under pressure. 
The harder the corn, the longer the exposure required to 
cure it; it is said that in some cases as much as eight hours 
is requisite, but usually much less than this. A large vessel 
of boiling water, in which the cans are immersed, may be 
used instead of the steam oven, but is not so effective. On 
removal from the oven or water bath, as the case may be, 
each can (they must be filled to the cover with fruit) has 
the cap with a very small hole tapped in its center imme- 
diately soldered on. As soon thereafter as the can stops 
blowing, as the escape of steam and air through the vent is 
termed, the hole is quickly soldered. This must be done 
before the air beo^ins to enter. 



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66. Best External Remedy for Rheumatism and 
all Severe Sprains and Pains.— Half pint each of tur 
pentine and pure cider vinegar, to which add one egg and 
shake well. Rub the affected parts thoroughly. 

67. How to Remove Warts and Tumors Pain- 
lessly.— Arsenious acid, 1 part; sulphate of morphine, 1 
part; calomel, 8 parts; powdered gum arable, 48 .parts. This 
is to be sprinkled over the cuticle dail3^ the surface of 
which has been previously denuded by knife or blister. 

68. HOW TO PREPARE KALSOMINE.-Soak 1 lb. 
of white glue overnight, then dissolve it in boiling water 
and add 20 lbs. of Paris white, diluting with water until 
the mixture is of the consistency of rich milk. To this 
any tint can be given that is desired. 

69. To Prevent Soars after Burns or any Injury. 

— The cicatrices, scars or marks left by various diseases, 
burns or wounds of divers kinds, are often less obstinately 
permanent than is generally supposed, and from some facts 
which have been latel}^ noticed, it is thought that their pre- 
vention or removal in man}^ cases may be accomplished b}^ 
some mild but effectual antiseptic. 

The following is a convenient formula: Borax, J oz.; 
salicylic acid, 12 grn.; glycerine, 3 drm. ; rose water, 6 oz. 
Make a lotion. 

70. CURE FOR TAPEWORM. -Forbyd the patient 
to take any breakfast the day on which it is intended to 
remove the worm, and give him a large dose of Rochelle 
salts the preceding night. In the morning, give him the 
following at one dose: Bark of pomegranate root, i oz.; 
pumpkin seed, J drm. ; ethereal extract of male fern, 1. drm. ; 
powdered ergot, J drm ; powdered gum arable, 2 drm.; 
Croton oil, 2 drops. The pomegranate bark and pumpkin 
seed are thoroughly bruised, and, with the ergot, boiled in 
8 oz. of water for fifeen minutes, then strained through a 
coarse cloth. The Croton oil is first well rubbed up-with 
the acacia and extract of male fern, and then formed into 
an emulsion with the decoction. The worm is expelled 



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alive and entire within two hours. No unpleasant effect 
follows. 

7 1. HOW TO PETRIFY WOOD. - Wood may be 
petrified by placing it in the following mixture after the 
ebullition has ceased: Equal parts chalk peebles powder, 
white vinegar, gem salt, and rock alum. Mix well. 

72. POLISH FOR FINGER NAILS. -Peroxide of tin 
(putty powder), 6 oz.; tr^gacanth, in powder, 6 gr. ; glyce- 
rine, 4 drm. ; rose water, q s. Mix and make into a paste. 
Color with ammoniacal carmine solution. 

73. HOW TO KEEP CIDER.- Place in each barrel 
immediately on making: mustard, 4 oz. ; salt, 1 oz.; ground 
chalk, 1 oz. Shake well. 

When the cider has reached the flavor required, add 1 to 
2 tumblers of grated horseradish to each barrel of cider. 

74. Cheap and Superior Dressing for Tan or 
Russet Shoes.— Take the juice of a lemon or the inside 
of a banana skin. Rub on and polish with any rag or 
brush. 

75. STOMACH BITTERS. -European gentian root, 
li oz.; orange peel, 2 J oz.; cinnamon, J oz.; anise seed, 
J oz.; coriander seed, J oz.; cardamon seed, ^ oz. ; unground 
Peruvian bark, J oz.; gum kino, J oz. Bruise all these 
articles, and put them into the best alcohol, 1 pint; let it 
stand a week and pour off the clear tincture ; then boil the 
dregs a few minutes in 1 quart of water, strain, and press 
out all the strength; now dissolve loaf sugar, 1 pound, in 
the hot liquid, adding 3 quarts cold water, and mix with 
spirit tincture first poured off, or you can add these, and let 
it stand on the dregs if preferred. 

76. Cure for Headache and all Neuralgic Pains 

— Opodeldoc, spirits of wine, sal ammoniac, equal parti 
To be applied as any other lotion. 

77. For Tetters, Ringworms and Scaldheads.— 

One pound simple cerate; sulphuric acid, one quarter of a 
pound. Mix together, and ready for use. 



20 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

78. WHOOPING COUCH. -Mix i pound of ground 
elecampane root in half a pint of strained honey and half 
a pint of water. Put them in a glazed earthen pot, and 
place it in a stone oven, with half the heat required to bake 
bread. Let it bake until about the consistency of strained 
honey, and take it out. Administer in doses of a tea- 
spoonful before each meal, to a child; if an adult, double 
the dose. 

79. VINECAR.-Take 40 gal. of soft water, 6 quarts of 
cheap molasses, and 6 pounds of acetic acid; put them into 
a barrel (an old vinegar barrel is best), and let them 'stand 
from three to ten weeks, stirring occasionally. Add a little 
"mother" of old vinegar if convenient. Age improves it. 

80. EYE WATER.— Take one pint of rose water, and 
add one teaspoonful each of spirits of camphor and laud- 
anum. Mix and bottle. To be shaken and applied to the 
eye as often as necessary. Perfectly harmless. 

81. FACE POWDER.- Starch, one pound; oxide of 
bismuth, four ounces. 

82. LATEST METHOD OF EM BALM INC. —Mix 

together five pounds dry sulphate of alumine, one quart of 
warm water, and one hundred grains of arsenious acid. 
Inject three or four quarts of this mixture into all the 
vessels of the human body. This applies as well to all 
animals, birds, fishes, etc. 

83. TO BLEACH STRAW HATS. -Straw is bleached 
by the vapors of sulphur, or a solution of oxalic acid or 
chloride of lime. It may be dyed with any liquid color. 

84. To Prevent Fence Posts from Rottening.— 

The posts can be prepared for less than two cents a piece. 
This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in 
pulverized charcoal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat 
of this over the timber, and there is not a man that will 
live to see it rotten. 



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85. TO FATTEN CALVES QUICKLY.- Aniseed, J 

pound; fenugrec, J lb.; linseed meal, 1 lb. Make it into a 
paste with milk, and cram them with it. 

86. To Prevent Flies from Setting on Picture 
Frames, Gas Fixtures, etc. — Soak a large bundle of 
leeks for five or six days in a pail of water, and then wash 
or sponge the pictures, etc., over with it. 

87. HOW TO EAT FIRE.— Anoint your tongue with 
liquid storax, and you may put hot iron or fire coals into 
your mouth without burning it. This is a very dangerous 
trick to be done, and those who practice it ought to use all 
means they can to prevent danger. 

88. TO REIVIOVE INK SPOTS. -As soon as the ac 
cident happens, wet the place with juice of sorrel or lemon, 
or with vinegar, and the best hard white soap. 

89. TO REMOVE FRUIT STAINS FROM CLOTH. 

— Dip the stained spots of the cloth into milk before wash- 
ing. 

90. COUCH CANDY.-Take equal parts of boneset, 
spikenard, elecampane, comfrey, and wild cherry bark; 
make a strong decoction; to every pint of this decoction 
add molasses, 1 pint; extract of licorice, 4 ounces, and 
honey, 4 ounces. Boil down to a proper consistency for 
forming a candy, when add oil of tar, 1 drachm; essence 
of sassafras, 2 teaspoonfuls. Work it up into a candy form 
by hand in the usual way. It may be eaten freely. 

91. ICE CREAM.— Granulated sugar, Impounds; whole 
eggs, 9; fresh milk, 1 gallon; extract of vanilla, or of any 
other kind, IJ ounces. Mix sugar and eggs together, using 
an egg beater; add milk and partly freeze before adding the 
extract. This will make very nearly two gallons fine ice 
cream when frozen, and at a much less cost than it can be 
bought for. 

92. To Keep Violin, Cuitar and Mandoline Strings 
from Breaking.— Tune the instrument ready for playing 



22 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

aud apply to the strings equal parts of rosin and glycerine 
well mixed together. Let stand five minutes and dry with 
clean cloth. It is said this is of great benefit. . 

93. To Keep Persons from Biting their Naiis.— 

Dip the fingers in/squash^vpr any harmless bitter liquid oc- 
casionally. > • 

94. TO MAKE COAL BURN MUCH LONCER.- 

Mix coal, charcoal, or saw dust, 1 part; sand of any kind, 
2 parts; marl or clay, 1 part; in quantity as thought proper. 
Make the mass up wet into balls of a convenient size, and 
when the fire is sufficiently strong, place these balls, accord- 
ing to their size, a little above the bar, and they will pro- 
duce a heat considerably more intense than common fuel, 
and insure a saving of one-half the quantity of coals. A 
fire thus made up will require no stirring nor fresh fuel for 
ten hours. 

95. RUBBER STAMP INK. -Dissolve aniline in hot 
glycerine, and strain while hot or warm. 

96. LEMONADE WITHOUT LEMONS.— Loaf sugar 

1 lb. ; rub it down finely in a mortar, and add citric acid, J oz. 
(tartaric acid will do), and lemon essence, J oz. Continue 
the trituration until all is intimately mixed, and bottle for 
use. 

97. CHEAP METHOD OF MAKING PAINT- Take 

skim milk, 2 qts., 8 oz. fresh slaked lime, 6 oz. linseed oil, 

2 oz. white Burgundy pitch, 3 lbs. Spanish white. Shake 
the lime in water, expose it to the air, and mix in about 
one-quarter of the milk. The oil, in which the pitch is 
previously dissolved, to be added a little at a time; then the 
rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This 
quantity is sufficient for thirty square yards, two coats, and 
costs but a few cents. If other colors are wanted, use, in- 
stead of Spanish white, other coloring matter. 

98. OIL TO MAKE HAIR CURL.- Olive, 1 pound ; 
oil of origanum, 1 drachm; oil of rosemary, 1^ drachms. 



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99 POULTICE for BURNS and FROZEN FLESH. 

-Indian-meal poultices, covered with young hyson tea, 
moistened with hot water, and laid over burns or frozen 
TAs as h^t as can be borne, will relieve the pain in five 
Sutes, and blisters, if they have not. will not arise. One 
poultice is usually sufficient. 

mo BARBER'S SHANIPOOINC NIIXTURE.-Soft 
wate° i pfnt ski soda, 1 oz.; cj-eam tartar, I oz. M-x and 
apply to hair. ..^ . ■ .kl ti" i' ' ' '•^- 

,01. TO i^AiN MARBkE,-ne»-&H-*«ti:OW.-Take 
of tin, prepared by aquafortis, and red lead, each 1 oz.; 
white pebble stone, or natural crystal, 2 oz.; nitre, 1 oz^; 
Trsenic 1 drachm, with equal parts of flux, or more or less, 
as the softness or opacity may require; melt together, cal- 
cine, or use raw. 

I02 To Revive the Cloth and Remove the Shine 
from Black Suits and Cloth.- Having cleaned it well, 
boil two or three ounces of logwood for half an honr^ 
Dip it in warm water and squeeze it dry, then put it into 
the coipeT and boil half an hour. Take it out and add 
fsmallTiece of green copperas, and boi^l it another l^a 
hour Hano- it in the air for an hour or two, then rinse it 
n two or t&ee cold waters, dry it and let it be regularly 
bmshed with a soft brush, over which a drop or two of oil 
of olives has been rubbed. 

,03. TO KEEP MAGGOTS FROM TROUBLING SMOKED 
HAMS, MEAT, ETC.- Take of vitriol, calcined to white- 
ness, 1 lb.; sugar of lead, 10 drachms. Kub together and 
distil. 

,04. TO SWEETEN THE BREATH.- Take 2 OZ. of 

terra japonica, half an ounce of sugar candy, both in powder 
Grind one drachm of the best ambergris with ten grains of 
pure musk, and dissolve a quarter of an ounce of c ean gum 
tra-acanth in 2 oz. of orange flower water. Mix all to 
gather so as to form a paste which roll into Pieces of the 
thickness of a straw. Cut these '"to pieces and lay them 
in clean paper. This is an excellent perfume foi those 
whose breath is disagreeable. 



24 now TO MAKE MONEY. 

r05. TOSPEEDILY RECOVER FROM HYSTERIC FITS. 

— Nothing recovers a person sooner out of the hysteric fit 
than putting the feet and legs in warm water. 

I06. TO MAKE HORSES^ HAIR SMOOTH AND SHINE. 

Take crocus metallorum, or liver of antimony, 1 oz.; 
sprinkle it with water, or mix it with moist bran. This 
may be given to horses subject to this disorder once a day, 
among their oats; it relieves the appetite, destroys worms, 
sweetens the blood against all obstructions, opens the pas 
sages and improves tired and lean horses in a great degree; 
it is also of great service in coughs and shortness of breath. 
It may be given daily from two to four weeks, and will 
soon produce a fine coat. The horse may be worked while 
he is taking the medicine, eare being taken not to expose 
him to wet or cold. 

I07. TO PREVENT HORSES^ FEET FROM BALLING 
WITH SNOW.— If the frog in the hoofs of horses and the 
fetlock be cleaned and well rubbed with soft soap previously 
to their going out in snowy weather, it will effectually pre- 
vent their falling, from what is termed balling the snow. 
A number of accidents might be prevented by this simple 
precaution. 

JOS. TO CURE DISTEMPER IN DOGS. -The follow- 
ing prescriptions are each about a dose for a full-grown 
pointer. They must, of course, be increased or diminished 
in proportion to the size and strength of the dog. 

Take of opium 3 grains, emetic tartar (an invaluable 
medicine) 5 grains. To be given at night 

Repeat the dose every third night till the dog is recovered; 
taking care to keep him in a warm place, and always fed 
with a warm liquid diet, such as broth, gruel, etc. 

If the nostrils should discharge, have them washed or 
syringed twice a day with a lotion of alum, or sugar of lead; 
putting about half an ounce of either to a pint of water. 

r09. CURE FOR CATTLE SWELLED WITH GREEN 
FOOD.— When any of your cattle happen to get swelled 
with an over feed of clover, frosty turnips, or such like, 
instead of the usual method of stabbing in the side, apply 



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a dostj' of train oil, which, after repeated trials, has been 
found to prove successful. The quantity of oil must vary 
according to the age or size of the animal. For a grown-up 
beast, of an ordinar}^ size, the quantity recommanded is 
about an English yjint, which must be administered to the 
animal with a bottle, taking c^are, at the same time, to rub 
the stomach well, in order to make it go down. After re- 
ceiving this medicine, it must be made to walk about until 
such time as the swelling begins t^ gubside^ 

S^J(. ' -fir i ''^'f^'Yt-^^ 
no. TO RESTORE F^BOS^-S+TTEN PLANTS.— Take 
fresh inade lime from the kiln, slake it well with water, 
and well dress the tree with a brush, and the insects and 
moss will be completely destroyed, the outer rind fall off, 
and a new, smooth, clear, healthy one formed, and the tree 
assume a most healthy appearance and produce the finest 
fruit. 

111. HOW TO FERTILIZE SEEDS BEFORE PLANTING. 

— Charles Miller, son of the celebrated botanist, published a 
recipe for fertilizing seed, and tried it on wheat, by mixing 
lime, nitre and pigeons' dung in water, and therein steeping 
the seed. The produce of some of these grains is stated at 
60, 70 and 80 stems, many of the ears five inches long, and 
60 corns each, and none less than 40. 

I 12. TO BOIL POTATOES MEALY EVERY TIME.— Select 
them of an uniform size, and pour over them cold water, in 
an uncovered pot, just sufficient to cover them. When this 
first water nearly boils, pour it off, and replace it with a 
similar quantity of salted cold water. They will thus be 
mealy and not cracked. The prongs of a fork will prove 
when they are done. 

113. TO MAKE VEGETABLES COOK TENDER.— When 

peas, French beans, etc , do not boil easily, it has usually 
been imputed to the coolness of the season, or to the rains. 
This popular notion is erroneous. The difliculty of boiling 
them soft arises from an excess of gypsum imbibed during 
their growth. To correct this, throw a small quantity of 
subcarbonate of soda into the pot along with the vegetables. 



26 HOAV TO MAKE MONEY. 

1 14. HOW TO MAKE A SICK HORSE DRINK FREELY. 

— A horse has a very sweet tooth — when he be unwell and 
won't drink, mix molasses or coarse brown sugar in the 
water; he will drink then freely. 

I 15. TO PREVENT SKIN FROM DISCOLORING AFTER 

A BRUISE.— Rub over with table butter. 

I 16. CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.- Wet a towel and 
lay on back of neck with a dry cloth over it. Often better 
than an opiate. Sleep In dark room. 

(17. TO MAKE COAL FIRE BURN BRIGHTLY.- Throw 

on a small handful of salt. 

118. TO CATCH WILD DUCKS AND GEESE — Soak 
corn in alcohol, and take them while drunk. 

I 19. TO REMOVETHE SMOKE FROM MICAOFSTOVE 
WINDOWS.— Wash with vinegar a little diluted. 

I20. TO CURE STAMMERING. -If not caused by mal- 
formation of organs. Read aloud for two hours a day 
for three months with the teeth closed. 

12 1. TO PREVENT PASTRY AND BREAD FROM 
SCORCHING WHILE BAKING.— Keep a dish of hot water 
in oven. 

122. TO COOK TENDER, MEAT OR FOWL. -Add a 

teaspoonful of vinegar to the water in which they are 
boiled. 

123. TO MAKE A PIANO CASE LOOK FRESH AND 
NEW.— Mix one part of olive oil and four parts of turpen- 
tine. Apply with cheese cloth dampened in wood alcohol. 

124. TO MAKE SOILED NECKTIES CLEAN AND 
BRIGHT AS NEW.— Use crude ammonia instead of soap. 
For neckties, take teaspoonful of hartshorn to cup of water, 
If much soiled, repeat the washing. 



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125. WASH FOR ARM PITS.- One quart of spring 
water; tincture of myrrh, 1 oz. ; sulphate of zinc, i oz. 
Mix and sponge. 

126. HOW TO EFFECTUALLY PROTECT THE THROAT 
AGAINST COAL3 NIGHT AIR. AND HOARSENESS.- A half- 

dollar's worth of ordinary benzoinol and a large atomizer 
will do the work for six months. Fill the atomizer and 
thoroughly coat the nasal cavity membranes with a spray 
of the oily liquid, and then atomize the throat. It takes 
but a minute, and one application does for twelve hours. 

127. BLEEDING OF NOSE.- From whatever cause 
may generally be stopped by putting a plug of lint into the 
nostrils; if this does not do, apply a cold lotion to the fore- 
head; raise the head, and place over it both arms, so that 
it will rest on the hands; dip the lint plug, slightly moistened^- 
into some powdered gum arable, and plug the nostrils 
again; or dip the plug into equal parts of powdered gum 
arable and alum, and plug the nose. Or the plug may be 
dipped in Friar's balsam, or tincture of kino. Heat should 
be applied to the feet; and, in obstinate cases, the sudden 
shock of a cold key, or cold water poured down the spine, 
will often instantly stop the bleeding. If the bowels are 
confined, take a purgative. 

128. TO CURE BOILS. —Apply a little Venice turpen- 
tine; or an equal quantity of soap and brown sugar well 
mixed; or a plaster of honey and flour; or of figs; or a little 
saffron in a white bread poultice; or a tablespoon of yeast 
m a glass of water, twice a day. Take an aperient. 

129. INFLAMMATION OF BREASTS.- The breast of 
females are sometimes inflamed, swelled and subject to ab- 
scesses. In mothers these affections are painful, and pre- 
vent the flow of milk. A swelling in the breast may be 
reduced by applying the bitter-sweet ointment, and the 
adhesive strengthening plaster. If there be a chill, it must 
be removed by prespiration. For this purpose take the 
sudorific powder. Also, take 1 teaspoon of best rum, 1 tea- 
spoon of ginger, \ teaspoon of cayenne pepper; boil for four 



28 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

or five minutes, and thicken with coarse flour, or ground 
elm bark, or slippery elm; put a little oil upon the breast, 
then apply the poultice, and repeat three or four times. It 
generally cures. If the pain be excessive, add a small 
quantity of laudanum to the poultice. This generally cures. 
In liard swelling of the breast, rub with sweet oil, or 
friction with soap liniment; 1 dr. of compound tincture of 
iodine to each ounce will render it more effectual. The 
bowels should be kept gently open, to subdue the fever. 

ISO. TREATMENT FOR CANCER. -Chloride of bromine, 
3 parts; chloride of zinc, 2 parts; chloride of gold and 
antimony, each 1 part; made into a thick paste with powd" 
ered licorice root. This preparation should be made in an 
open place on account of the gases which are disengaged. 

Internal remedy to prevent a relapse: 

Chloride of bromine, 2 drops; powder of the seeds of 
water fenel, 23 grs. ; extract of hemlock (Conium Macula- 
tum), 12 grs.; mix and divide into 20 pills; one to be taken 
daily for two months, and after that, two pills daily for a 
month or two lono^er, one night and morning after meals. 

131. DELIRIUM TREMENS.- To OBTAIN SleEP.- Give 
an emetic of ipecacuanha, then give 15 to 18 grs. of the 
same every 2 hours, using the shower bath, and giving all 
the beef tea the patient desires. 

Stimulating Anodyne. — Sulphate of quinine, 12 grs ; 
sulphate of morphine, 1 gr.; mix and divide into 6 powders. 
Dose — One powder every hour. 

132. DYSENTERY. — To cure, give gentle emetics, and 
mild purgatives, if needful. The ''neutralizing mixture" 
is of great efficacy — a tablespoon per hour. Should inflam- 
mation continue, give an injection: as, milk, ^ pt.; mucilage 
of slippery elm bark, J pt. ; treacle, | pt.; olive oil, J a wine 
glass, and a teaspoon of salt This affords great relief. 
Keep up a gentle perspiration by the sudorific powders, or 
by the application of hot bricks. If there be local pain, 
foment with a decoction of vinegar, hops, tansy, hore- 
hound and catnip. Give warm diluents and mucilaginous 
drinks, and if putresence appears give yeast in a decoction 
of logwood. 

Prepare chalk, ^ dr.; compound powder of gum dragon. 



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2i drs. ; aromatic confection, 1 dr.; tincture of catechu and 
of kino, 2 drs., each; laudanum, ^ dr.; aromatic spirit of 
ammonia, IJ drs., and cinnamon water, 2 or 4 ozs. Dose. 
Two tablespoons every three hours. Or, simmer 1 oz. of 
blackberry root bark, and 2 ozs. of raspberry leaves in a 
quart of water for 40 minutes, strain and add IJ ozs. of 
tincture of myrrh and a little sugar. Take a wine glass 
every half hour. It seldom fails. 

Butter just churned is said to be a sure cure; it must be 
unsalted, and clarified over the fire. Two tablespoons 
several times a day. 

133. How TO MAKE Ice Last Longer in Refrigerator. 

— To keep ice, wrap it in old newspapers. Better than old 
blankets, and less trouble. 

134. HOW TO TELL SEX OF EGGS.- The eggs con- 
taining the germ of males have wrinkles on their smaller 
ends, while female eggs are smooth at the extremities. 

135. TO LENGTHEN EYE LASHES.- Clip the split 
ends with a pair of scissors about once a month. Mothers 
perform the operation on their children, both male and 
female, when they are mere infants, watching the oppor- 
tunity whilst they sleep. The practice never fails to pro- 
duce the desired effect. 

136. TO SOFTEN WATER.- Wood ashes form a good 
lye for softening water, but care must be taken that they 
should be all wood. 

Habd. — Boil it, and expose it to the atmosphere. Add 
a little carbonate of soda. 

137. TO PREVENT WETTING THE BED.- Take of 
infusion of quassa, 6 ozs.; quinine, 6 grains.; diluted sul- 
phuric acid, 30 drops; mix. A dessert or tablespoon to be 
given three times a day, in water, to children from five to 
ten years of age. When the accident proceeds from worms 
the cause must be removed by the means recommended 
under "Worms," which see. 



30 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

138. ERYSIPELAS WASH.- Take sugar of lead, 2 
drachms; plaster Paris, 2 drachms; tincture of opium, 2 
ounces; tincture of catechu, 2 ounces; water, 12 ounces; 
mix and apply. 

139. HOT WATER FOR THE HEART.- Dr. A. Paggi 
records the following observation: He states that in Paris 
he saw a case in which, under the inhalation of chloroform, 
the heart ceased to beat, and artificial respiration for ten 
minutes failed to restore circulation, when Dr. Labbe dipped 
a cloth in boiling water and applied it in the region of the 
heart, with the result of immediately restoring the action 
of that organ. 

140. VOMITING IN PREqNANCY - Take bromide of 
potass., 2 drachms; aqua cinnamon, 3 ounces. Dose.-- 
Dessertspoonful after meals. 

I4L CEMENT FOR CLASS.- Dissolve fine glue in 
strong acetic acid to form a thin paste. 

142. TO EXTERMINATE RED ANTS.- Grease a plate 
with lard, and set it where the insects abound. They prefer 
lard to anything else, and will forsake sugar for it. Place 
a few sticks around the plate for the ants to climb up on. 
Occasionally turn the plate bottom up over the fire, and the 
ants will fall in with the melting lard. Reset the plate, 
and in a short time you will catch them all. Powdered 
borax sprinkled around the infested places will exterminate 
both red and black ants. 

143. TO PURIFY WATER IN CISTERNS. -Two ounces 
of permanganate of potassa thrown in a cistern will render 
the foulest water sweet and pure. 

144. HOW TO FATTEN HORSES. -Many good horses 
devour large quantities of hay and grain and yet continue 
poor, and the more they eat the poorer they appear to grow. 
The fault is, that the food is not properly assimilated. If 
the usual feed has been unground grain and hay, nothing 
but a change will make any desirable change in the appear- 
ance of the animal. In case oil meal cannot be obtained 



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readily, mingle a bushel of flax seed with a bushel of barley, 
one of oats, and another bushel of Indian corn, and let it 
be ground into fine meal. This will be a fair proportion 
for all his feed. Or the meal or barley, oats and corn, in 
equal quantities, may at first be procured and J of all cake 
mingled with it when the meal is sprinkled on cut feed. 
Feed 2 or 3 quarts of the mixture 3 times daily with a peck 
of cut hay and straw. If the horse will eat that amount 
greedily, let the quantity be gradually increased, until he 
will eat 4, 5 or 6 quarts at every feeding 3 times a day. So 
long as the animal will eat this allowance the quantity may 
be increased a little every day. But always avoid the prac- 
tice of allowing the horse to stand at a rack well filled with 
hay. In order to fatten a horse that has run down in flesh. 
the groom should be very particular to feed the animal no 
more than he will eat up clean and lick his manger for more. 

145. REMEDY FOR BALKY HORSES. - Whirl him 

rapidly round till he is giddy. In order to do this take him 
from the vehicle. Don't let- him step out, hold him to the 
smallest possible circle. It will not take more than a couple 
of doses to effectually cure him. 

146. TO PREVENT HENS FROM SITTING. - Put in a 

trough sufficient water to make a depth of one inch; place 
the hen therein, and cover the top for about a day. Ihe 
trough should be deep enough to allow the hen to stand 
up. 

147. CHICKEN CHOLERA. - Take alum, 2 ounces; 
resin, 2 ounces; copperas, 2 ounces; lac sulphur, 2 ounces; 
cayenne pepper, 2 ounces. Pulverize, then mix three table- 
spoonfuls of the powder with one quart corn meal, and 
dampen for use. 

148. TO KEEP SWINE HEALTHY.- Erect a pen ii. 

your hog lot about eight by ten, and thrt.-e feet high, made 
out of common rails; cover this with plank so as to protect 
from rain or snow; in this pen place slack coal (can be 
procured at any coal shaft), and common salt; half bushel 
of salt to five bushels of. coal, mix it as you fill your pen, 



32 HOW TO MAKE MONEY. 

The hogs will eat this preparation continually. After the 
preparation has stood in the air some time, it will become 
compact, so that you can remove the rails from around it, 
and the hogs will continue to devour the preparation. 
Keep a careful watch over them, and if at any time some 
of them should have a cough, or do not partake of the food 
in a proper manner, or seem to droop around, --all animals 
in this condition should be removed from the lot at once, 
and placed where they could not communicate in any 
manner. Prepare another pen to hold coal, etc., in another 
lot, and change your hogs from one lot to the other three 
or four times a week or oftener. This is to prohibit them 
from sleeping in the same beds. 

Feed your hogs that are ill, warm, light diet, prohibiting 
all grain, and keep a portion of salt and cayenne pepper in 
the pen continually. We do not believe in allowing hogs 
to sleep around straw stacks, or other warm buildings in 
the spring — this is a breeder of disease — you had better 
place them in an open lot. 

J49. Watering Plants with Hot Water. -Careful ex- 
periments demonstrate that sickly potted plants, even some 
that have almost died, can be greatly benefited, and some- 
times, indeed, entirely restored to vigor, by applying to 
them warm instead of cold water. In certain cases, 
oleanders which have never bloomed, or which have done 
so only imperfectly, afier being treated with lukewarm 
water, increasing the temperature gradually from 140^ to 
170^ F., produced the most magnificent luxuriance of 
bloom. Similar results occurred with an old plant of Hoya^ 
♦and also with an India-rubber tree which had nearly with- 
ered away. In all these cases the application of water 
heated to about 110^ F., without any other precaution, 
caused a new and flourishing growth. 

ISO. How TO Weld Iron Without Heating. — Take 

equal parts of sulphur and white lead, with a proportion of 
about one-sixth of borax. When the composition is to be 
applied it is wet with strong sulphuric acid and a thin layer 
of it is placed between the two pieces of iron, which are at 
once pressed together. In five days it will be perfectly dry, 
all traces of the cement having vanished, and the work 
having every appearance of welding. 



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